The Cheez is Moving

Anyone still around from the old days (that would pre-the Great Recession) will undoubtedly remember Cheezhead, an utterly irreverent blog about all things recruiting. Written by Joel Cheesman, the blog could be at turns informative, satiric, newsy, and polemical, especially when it came to job boards, and especially when it involved CareerBuilder or Monster.

Turns out, though, that Cheesman got a better offer from Dan Arkind to blog regularly for ATS vendor JobScore. They were both pretty giddy about the whole thing when they tipped us off to Wednesday’s Return of Cheez.

Did Arkind know what he was getting into? “We’re looking for him to be him,” said Arkind. “He’s just going to be Joel.”

And indeed, Cheesman is already doing that thing that he does:

Frankly, the recruitosphere has been one big snoozer the past few years (see, I’ve already angered a whole bunch of people).

Admittedly tame by Cheezhead standards, but then he’s just warming up.

More Jobing Expats

Another of Jobing’s alums (purely coincidental, at least we think so) is now doing workshops and PR on behalf of Brandman University, which is part of Chapman College in California.

He guest appeared on a morning TV show in Sacramento this week, letting job seekers know what NOT to Tweet.

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